English

Adjective

latrating ‎(not comparable)

1. (rare) Of barking.
   1. literally
      • circa 1928: Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145

        I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously as a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.

   2. figuratively
      • 1929: Charles Hall Grandgent, The New Word, page 90

        That seems to be, nowadays, the barker’s pet name for his latrating art.

Verb

latrating

1. present participle of latrate
   • 1972: Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201

     With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking, or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.